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There’s plenty around to worry about, from pandemics to social unrest, but for me, the headache closest to home is…What to Watch.
About Eleanor Ringel Cater
Eleanor was the film critic for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for almost 30 years. She was nominated multiple times for a Pulitzer Prize. She won the Best of Cox Critic, IMAGE Film & Video and Women In Film awards. An Atlanta native, she graduated from Westminster and Brown University. She was the critic on WXIA’s Noonday, a member of Entertainment Weekly’s Critics Grid and wrote TV Guide’s movie/DVD. She is member of the National Society of Film Critics and currently talks about movies on WMLB and writes the Time Out column for the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
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There’s plenty around to worry about, from pandemics to social unrest, but for me, the headache closest to home is…What to Watch.
They always say these things come in threes. In the last week we’ve lost Olivia de Havilland, Wilford Brimley and Alan Parker.
“Palm Springs” may be the perfect pandemic romance. An initial at-a-glance plot summary is admittedly off-putting, especially for those of us who think “Groundhog Day” may be one of the greatest films ever made.
“John Lewis: Good Trouble” isn’t a remarkable documentary, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s about a remarkable man and that’s more than enough.
A victory at sea for writer/star Tom Hanks, his entire cast and crew and us – their lucky audience, “Greyhound” gives moviegoers a gripping taste of the World War II combat zone known as the Battle of the Atlantic.
By Eleanor Ringel Cater Though most outside fireworks were curtailed this Fourth, there were plenty of them inside on your streaming devices. “Hamilton” (or “Hamilfilm,” as its been nicknamed) hit homes like a combination Sparkler, Cherry Bomb, and Roman Candle. Equally potent, in a very different way and arriving with considerably less fanfare, was the […]
Oh, how we’ve missed you Jon Stewart. Thankfully, he’s back with “Irresistible,” a cheerfully subversive bit of political satire that’s almost impossible to write about without giving the game away.
A world-famous and quite wealthy mystery writer named Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) has been found dead. Apparently, it’s a suicide. His throat has been slit. His hand is on the bloody knife.
The question on everyone’s mind about “The King of Staten Island” is pretty simple: has Pete Davidson got the goods?
Just a few months ago, in January, I was trying to be clever (emphasize “trying”) as I wrote about “Just Mercy,”the new film starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx. Based on a true story of racial injustice set in 1988, I joked that “Just Mercy” would be one of the best movies of the year – if the year were 1988 or even 1968.
